Rails generator model with optional validations and required?

[Emile Bosch]

Hi there,

Like numerous times I am generating models, I go in to make fields required and validates_presence_of them.

Would it be easy if we could just say:

~~

rails g model contact *name *email:string *age:int

~~

Simple but super easy to add and makes it all a bit more dry.

Let me know what ya'll think and then I'll add it to rails <3

[Hamad Al-Ghanim]

I would rather have it look like the following

Rails g model contact name:string:required age:int:required

[Emile Bosch]

Thanks for your participation!
Hmm, maybe. However I am afraid this might get a bit cumbersome when writing more then 4 fields. The word required in this sample is
the longest word of this command. Maybe req? Are there any other generators out there that tackle this problem?

Also an * (asterisk) is universal hint that something is required

> On 29 Aug 2019, at 17:07, Hamad Al-Ghanim <dreame...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would rather have it look like the following
>
> Rails g model contact name:string:required age:int:required
>

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[James Coleman]

An asterisk is actually going to be very painful to use, because your
shell is going to treat it as a shell expansion by default rather than
passing it along to Rails.

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[Emile Bosch]

Ha, well that makes the choice easy then, then :required is probably the way to go.

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